Our Story

Welcome to our site! We are Joanne & Steve. After 20+ years working for a city school department and police department, we sold almost everything, bought an RV, and started living on the road with our three children. Joanne homeschools and works online.

What we have chosen is to live life as unencumbered as we possibly can and to spend time with our family, for our family, and as a family.

This website is a record of our travels. But, we also hope to educate, entertain, and inform others about RVing, roadschooling, and the great places we visit in this country.

Friday, September 3, 2010

Eagle vs Earl

So, the first major hurricane of the season is bearing down upon Rhode Island. It started as a category 4 and at the present time, I believe, is a category 3. Should be all of 2 by the time it hits us. Meteorologists are predicting it will travel just south east of Nantucket, so only the coastal towns and cities will really feel the affect. However, I am still a tad bit concerned that the pine trees standing just feet from the camper may come crashing down on her.

Where do they come up with these names anyway? Earl?

Steve and I were married during Bertha.

According to http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/HAW2/english/basics.shtml...

Hurricane Names

When the the winds from these storms reach 39 mph (34 kts), the cyclones are given names. Years ago, an international committee developed names for Atlantic cyclones (The History of Naming Hurricanes). In 1979 a six year rotating list of Atlantic storm names was adopted — alternating between male and female hurricane names. Storm names are used to facilitate geographic referencing, for warning services, for legal issues, and to reduce confusion when two or more tropical cyclones occur at the same time. Through a vote of the World Meteorological Organization Region IV Subcommittee, Atlantic cyclone names are retired usually when hurricanes result in substantial damage or death or for other special circumstances. The names assigned for the next several seasons are shown below.

Hurricanes draw their strength from warm ocean waters, and Earl is expected to remain a powerful hurricane as it churns northward, because northern Atlantic waters are unusually warm this year. The same factors pushing and powering Hurricane Earl are expected to remain in place for days, so tropical storm Fiona is likely to stay offshore of the U.S. But Fiona is unlikely to grow into Hurricane Fiona, Blackwell said, because winds from the more powerful Hurricane Earl will probably disrupt the new storm. If Fiona gets too close to Earl, he said, "Earl might eat it."